I need HELP!!!

p0ss3s3d · 28 May 2009 at 13:21

I need HELP!!(7200.11 users!)

The story, I turned my PC off yesterday windows 7 installed one or two updates. I slept. Woke up, turned the PC on saw a message saying insert boot device.

I'm using the 1104 asus bios with a 1tb barracuda , I checked to see if the drive is recognized, it isn't. I'm only able to see my DVD drive, can someone give me steps to troubleshoot the drive??

Thanks in advance,

p0ss3s3d

philjohn · 28 May 2009 at 13:48

Barracude 7200.11? If so, did you check if it was affected by the firmware bug and apply the upgrade?

p0ss3s3d · 28 May 2009 at 14:50

philjohn said:
Barracude 7200.11? If so, did you check if it was affected by the firmware bug and apply the upgrade?

What bug??

Any linkies

miniyazz · 28 May 2009 at 15:36

Uh-oh. Head in the sand

Been all over everywhere for the last few months!
This'll get you started..

p0ss3s3d · 28 May 2009 at 16:16

miniyazz said:
Uh-oh. Head in the sand
Been all over everywhere for the last few months!
This'll get you started..

Thanks for that...

I'm always 'looking after' my drive's i.e defragmenting & cleaning, but I never think about drivers, to me updates and drivers are Graphics, Mobo and CPU.

I think I've learnt my lesson, judging by the complexity of the fix. WOW!!
p0ss3s3d

miniyazz · 28 May 2009 at 16:54

Nah IMO you shouldn't have to worry about firmware updates for hard drives; they're just there for storage for me anyway. Sure if it gives you performance boosts it might be worth it but I don't have hard drives for performance, SSD is where that's at, whereas graphics you want the best performance every time you play a game so driver updates make sense, plus easier to do than firmware updates.

Just keep an ear out for this sort of big screwup by the manufacturer, and keep data backed up!

p0ss3s3d · 28 May 2009 at 18:05

miniyazz said:
...keep data backed up!

Last back-up was about two months ago. :rolleyes:

was going to do one at the weekend

Anyway has anyone actually had this problem if so how did they fix it??

philjohn · 29 May 2009 at 18:51

p0ss3s3d said:
Last back-up was about two months ago. was going to do one at the weekend

Anyway has anyone actually had this problem if so how did they fix it??

IIRC Seagate were offering free recovery through one of their subsidiaries, so that may be something to look into.

As far as backups go though, I've been using something called Jungledisk to great effect. Backs up onto an Amazon S3 account so you pay pennies per gigabyte per month and it's all backed up offsite. I have about 25GB of important, cannot be lost, files backed up on mine (family photos and the accounts from my business). Costs me about £4 a month all told.

miniyazz · 29 May 2009 at 21:56

philjohn said:
IIRC Seagate were offering free recovery through one of their subsidiaries, so that may be something to look into.

http://www.i365.com/data-recovery/index.html but do a search in the forums, somewhere there's a thread with a bit more info on it w.r.t the dodgy Seagates